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Allusions to 2 Peter in the apostolic fathers

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The authors found that 2 Peter is not alluded to at all in the corpus of the Apostolic Fathers, which is contrary to the claim of some that it is the case up to the time of Clement of Alexandria.
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I began this study to see whether anything in the Apostolic Fathers might shed any light on the interpretation of 2 Peter. Other motivations have been added along the way. I soon ran into the claims of some that 2 Peter is not alluded to at all in the corpus of the Apostolic Fathers. Edwin Abbott provides an outstanding example of this. Of 2 Peter he said: ’Up to the time of Clement of Alexandria (i.e.

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The Influence and Use of Daniel in the Synoptic Gospels

TL;DR: The use of Daniel in the psyche and its role in the development of modernity are examined in more detail in the second part of this monograph.
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The Mission of the Jerusalem Apostles: An Authorial, Historical and Canonical Reconstruction

TL;DR: The mission of the Jerusalem Apostles can be discovered by an authorial, historical, and canonical reconstruction of their epistles if they are studied as a collection as discussed by the authors, and it is proposed that the Jerusalem Apostolicity representing the Jewish Christianity played a role in the church in, on the one hand, separating from first-century Judaism, and counterbalancing the Gentile Christianity represented by Paulinism.

2 peter in recent research: a bibliography

TL;DR: In a 1979 JETS article, John Snyder called attention to the scholarly neglect of 2 Peter and provided a bibliography which he hoped would stimulate a more aggressive and creative study of this still valuable letter.
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Ignatius of Antioch. A Study in Personal Religion

TL;DR: The Shepherd of Hermas as mentioned in this paper is a second-rate Bunyan of the second century, whose introductory references to the grace which abounded toward him are on the circumference, and the bulk of his book is almost as impersonal as any church manual.
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The Influence and Use of Daniel in the Synoptic Gospels

TL;DR: A comprehensive look at all the possible allusions to the book of Daniel in the Synoptic Gospels is presented in this article , where all the cases are discussed and given an assessment of either "no allusions", "uncertain allusion", "possible allusion', "probable allusion" or "certain allusion".
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The Background of St. Ignatius of Antioch

L.W. Barnard
- 01 Jan 1963 - 
TL;DR: In the seven genuine Ignatian Epistles, written or dictated while on his last journey to Rome, there is revealed a person passionately devoted to his faith-one who strongly desires martyrdom-yet one who is concerned with the practical details of Church life and order and especially with the problem of heresy and schism as mentioned in this paper.
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Ignatius of Antioch. A Study in Personal Religion

TL;DR: The Shepherd of Hermas as mentioned in this paper is a second-rate Bunyan of the second century, whose introductory references to the grace which abounded toward him are on the circumference, and the bulk of his book is almost as impersonal as any church manual.